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toxocara Vet. Sci.|tɒksəʊˈkærə|
[mod.L. (C. W. Stiles 1905, in Bull. Bur. Animal Industry (U.S. Dept. Agric.) No. 79. 150), f. toxo-1 + Gr. κάρα head.]
a. A nematode worm of the genus of this name, which includes species parasitic in cats and dogs; also in pl. sense.
b. = toxocariasis.
1940A. C. Chandler Introd. Parasitol. (ed. 5) xxii. 388 Toxocara males have a small finger-like process at the tip of the tail. 1962Lancet 6 Jan. 35/1 Duguid has now recorded 28 cases of children with retinal granuloma endophthalmitis due to toxocara. 1968New Scientist 4 Apr. 41/1 The nematode is toxocara, of which there are two important species. 1976Milton Keynes Express 16 July 1/2 Toxocara, a ‘rare and horrific’ disease caught from dog-dirt, has infected a Bletchley boy.
So toxoˈcaral a.; toxocaˈriasis [-iasis], infection with Toxocara nematodes.
1930E. C. Faust Human Helminthol. 613/2 (Index), Toxocariasis. 1966Arch. Dis. in Childhood XLI. 222/1 The diagnosis of toxocariasis is essentially a clinical one. 1968Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Mar. 677/2 Persistent eosinophilia, hepatomegaly, choroiditis, and pulmonary infiltration are mentioned together or separately as indicating possible toxocaral infection. 1976Ibid. 19 June 1486/2 Of human toxocariasis virtually nothing was known until about 12 years ago. 1981Ibid. 18 July 192/1 A case of arthritis and arthralgia associated with toxocaral infestation. |